How to Use redacted in a Sentence

redacted

adjective
  • The Star obtained a redacted copy of the complaint that does not say who filed it or when.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2024
  • The city lawyer did not return follow up calls from AL.com about whether the city would provide redacted records.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 31 July 2022
  • After a court fight, a judge last month ordered the redacted version to be made public.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The woman said Biegert, who was off duty at the time, called to complain but the redacted records did not say what the phone call was concerning.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2021
  • Cuomo says that is too slow and the records are still redacted, with one of the six transcripts having more redactions than the version on the AG’s website!
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The relationship between the son and Lin’s wife was not made clear in a redacted version of the police report.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Donnelly ruled that the media could listen to redacted versions of the audio from some of the recordings.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The handwritten note was made public when TMZ published a redacted version of it in 2017.
    Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The redacted complaint mentions Mr. Bezos 16 times, and Mr. Jassy only twice.
    Karen Weise, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • On the call, Ms. Haugen offered to share redacted versions of the trove of Facebook documents under an embargo to be set by the group.
    Ben Smith, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The details of the judgment made Tuesday remain sealed, but a redacted version is expected to be made public in the coming weeks.
    TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Two people whose name appears in the records have been given additional time to make arguments to the court as to why their names should stay redacted.
    David B. Caruso, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the records stemming from the case have been gradually released over the years, though many documents remained redacted or sealed.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • According to a redacted incident report, the two struggled outside the store, and the woman threatened to shoot the store owner.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • Earlier this year, a judge allowed a redacted version to be released.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The report obtained by the PNJ includes the redacted information.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The sheriff's office reports are heavily redacted, blacking out many of the names of the staff members who were arrested.
    Katherine Kokal, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Some victims’ names remain redacted due to the sensitive nature of the crimes, according to court filings.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • They were shown a short, redacted clip of the incident, but a judge's ruling last week allowed the sheriff's department to share the full footage with family members.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 3 May 2021
  • In November, a redacted version of its findings was made public.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The redacted protocol does not specify which license must be held.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • Commander raced out of the garden, and away from first lady Jill Biden, biting the agent, according to the redacted memorandum.
    USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Several months later, a 14-page draft of the report that included the redacted allegations was leaked to the media.
    Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Enlarge The entire conversation goes well beyond what’s shown in the redacted screenshot above.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • State prosecutors questioned whether Spertus was allowed to file them publicly based on his knowledge of the nine redacted names.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • McLaughlin granted Maxwell's request to seal the initial arrest documents and noted that the state would have to provide a redacted version once the charges are filed.
    Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The request was made under seal earlier this month; a redacted version was published late Friday.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The records shared by all three were often heavily redacted, missing details such as where incidents occurred and who was shot.
    Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, the writer/director flexes his artistic license a bit with his telling—necessary when trying to fill in the blanks the government would rather stay left redacted.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • Both the security video and the audio from the redacted body camera footage show the officers talking with the father outside his home after midnight.
    CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023

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